Ledringhem / Ledreghem / Ledrenghem / Ledringem / Ledringheim / Leodedringas / Leodringas
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view of church exterior - northeast view
Scene Description: Source caption: "de type église-hall ou hallekerque (hallekerk) constituée de trois nefs, éléments romans, signes runiques visibles ici sur le chevet"
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Image Source: digital photograph [edited] 5 August 2017 by Jpcuvelier [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LEDRINGHEM_chevet_de_l'église_ST_OMER.jpg] [accessed 12 May 2022]
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INFORMATION
FontID: 23939LED
Church/Chapel: Eglise paroissiale Saint-Omer de Ledringhem
Church Patron Saints: St. Omer [aka Audomar, Audomarus, Odemaars]
Church Location: 2 La Place, 59470 Ledringhem, France
Country Name: France
Location: Nord, Hauts-de-France
Directions to Site: Located off the D55 [aka route de Wormhout], 4 km SW of Wormhout, about 30 km SSE of Dunkirk
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocèse de Lille
Historical Region: Nord-Pas-de-Calais / Pays de l'Alleu / Flandre française / Comté de Flandre
Font Location in Church: [cf. FntNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Pol Herman for bringing this font to our attention and for his help in documenting it
Church Notes: a church here, perhaps as early as 10th-11thC, was documented ca. 1125 as belonging to the abbaye de Saint-Winoc, in Bergues; re-built 1548
Font Notes: Click to view font notes
Noted in Kees de Wildt's Doopvont de Beeldenstorm (2018: 114-120) as one of a number of baptismal fonts of the Westerkwartier (then part of Flanders, later in France) having been desecrated, damaged or destroyed during the Iconoclastic Fury of 1566. The present font is listed in Palissy [ref.: PM59008634]: "Fonts baptismaux en marbre gris et couvercle en cuivre [...] 18e siècle [...] H = 105 ; d = 70".
COORDINATES
Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal:
50.8545,
2.44048
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS:
50° 51′ 16.2″ N,
2° 26′ 25.73″ E
UTM: 31U 460616 5633794